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+1. This is way cool. Great job!<br>
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--patrick<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/10/2014 10:19 AM, William Woodall
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<div dir="ltr">Very neat! Thanks for the contribution!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Chris
Zalidis <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:zalidis@gmail.com" target="_blank">zalidis@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr">
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Dear
all, </span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">We
are happy to announce the first release (v0.1) of STDR
Simulator (Simple Two Dimensional Robot Simulator) ROS
package. It is a fact that a variety of robot
simulators is available. Some characteristic examples
are the Player/Stage/Gazebo project, USARSim, Webots,
V-REP and many many others. We acknowledge that these
frameworks are state-of-the-art and provide a vast
amount of services, ranging from realistic 3D
simulation to hardware support. Though the prize you
ought to pay is that they are either extremely
architecturally complicated and confuse the novice
robotics researcher or they require a lot of
computational power to provide realistic 3D
simulation. In addition, almost all of the
pre-mentioned frameworks have a lot of dependencies
that make the installation procedure time consuming
and sometimes impossible due to dependency errors.
What we envisioned was a simple simulator that its
installation wouldn’t require more than a few clicks,
one that would allow the robotic researcher to
materialize their ideas in a simple and efficient
manner.</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">That
is why we decided to create STDR Simulator. STDR
Simulator’s two main goals are:</span></p>
<ul
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<li dir="ltr"
style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It
doesn’t aim to be the most realistic simulator,
nor the one with the most functionalities. Our
intention is to make a single robot's, or a
swarm's simulation as simple as possible, by
minimizing the needed actions the researcher has
to perform to start theirs experiment. In
addition, STDR can function with or without a
graphical environment, which allows for
experiments to take place even using ssh
connections. </span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">STDR
Simulator is created in a way that makes it
totally ROS compliant. Every robot and sensor
emits a ROS transformation (tf) and all the
measurements are published in ROS topics. In that
way, STDR uses all ROS advantages, aiming at easy
usage with the world's most state-of-the-art
robotic framework. The ROS compliance also
suggests that the Graphical User Interface and the
STDR Server can be executed in different machines,
as well as that STDR can work together with ROS
Rviz!</span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">We
hope that STDR Simulator will be useful to the
beginner robotics researcher aiming at comprehending
the area, as well as to an advanced roboticist who
wants to try his ideas in mapping, navigation or path
planning.</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">STDR
Simulator is - of course - open source and can be
downloaded from our Github page (</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">)
or through the official ROS binary distributables
(ros-hydro-stdr-simulator). Since this release is the
initial one we expect things to not fully work, so it
would perfect if you could provide us with some
comments / suggestions / bugs that you discover. Our
bug tracker is: </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator/issues"
style="line-height:1.15;text-decoration:none"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator/issues</span></a><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">.
</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Finally
you can find a detailed description of STDR Simulator
in our wiki page or our website:</span></p>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<ul
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://stdr-simulator-ros-pkg.github.io/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://stdr-simulator-ros-pkg.github.io/</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
</li>
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style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.ros.org/stdr_simulator"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://wiki.ros.org/stdr_simulator</span></a><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
</span></p>
</li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Contact
e-mail : <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:stdr.simulator@gmail.com"
target="_blank">stdr.simulator@gmail.com</a></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
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<span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Arial"></span>
<p dir="ltr"
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">The
development team:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Manos
Tsardoulias (administrator/developer), PhD in
Electrical Engineering (etsardou [at] gmail [dot]
com)</span></p>
</li>
<li dir="ltr"
style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chris
Zalidis (maintainer/developer), Student in
Electrical Engineering (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki) (zalidis [at] gmail [dot] com)</span></p>
</li>
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style="margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aris
Thallas (developer), Student in Electrical
Engineering (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
(aris.thallas [at] gmail [dot] com)</span></p>
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